1. General consideration:
a.
Location: there are very important factors be considered in locating
industrial plants & include
1.
Raw material supplies
2.
Transportation facilities
3.
Labor supplies
Also should be have
safety system e.g. fire
protection
b. Arrangement of building: Buildings
should be arranged to permit economic production also with high safety and fire
protection.
c. Overhead clearance: should be
provided for roads and foot ways
2. Building and equipment's
a. Building includes:
1.
Type of construction
a. Frame construction
b. Non combustible construction
2.
Outside wall (doors & windows) prevent spread of fire
3.
Horizontal cutoffs: where floor area are large
4.
Vertical cutoffs: entirely cutoff from the other floor
5.
Exits
6.
Lightening: the ideal light is the day light from above and not from side
windows
7.
Color in industries:
|
Application
|
Color
|
|
Surface
of electric switches
|
Yellow
|
|
First
aid room
|
Green
|
|
Fire alarm
|
Red
|
|
Elevator
|
Blue
|
|
Storage
area
|
White
|
8.
Ventilation: factors effect in degree of ventilation
* Amount & distribution of
air supply
*Temperature, humidity, motion
velocity, odor, dusts, bacteria & toxic vapor
b. Equipment: must be free from exposed
moving parts and location in adequate working area
c. Processes: in close systems
d. Special safety protection equipment:
1. Head and eye protection as masks, shields
&hats
2.
Respiratory protection: gas mask protection against
special gases in concentration not exceeding than 2% in air.
E. Fire protection
1. Water supplies
a. Public water b. Revere
2. Fire alarm equipment.
a. Interfering.
b. Positive non- interfering.
c. Positive non- interfering & successive.
3. Automatics sprinkler systems: ↑temperature (fire) melt a soft
solder automatically discharging
water on the fire.
4. First aid fire extinguishers
a. Non
conducting electricity
b. Cooling effect (Water)
c. Smoothing effect (Blanket)
5. Fire protection equipment
a. Carbon dioxide (cooling effect)
b. Foam
c. Steam
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